I asked my husband for a Garmin watch for my 70th birthday because of the GPS and safety features. Never did I realize the motivator it has become in one short month! I exercised and worked out before my Garmin but I have exercised and worked out more consistently since my Vivoactive 5! I also love the heart rate, sleep score and steps features--it's been perfect!!!

This watch shows the routes I walk with my dog 2X a day, and the mileage. I try to keep my boy at the maximum amount of walking he can handle without getting sore. The watch does that, that was all I wanted. Well, and to track my heart rate, and it does that too!

I expect the watch face to appear every time I raise my arm to look at it. i have to make a very exaggerated motion to see the time which makes me feel ridiculous when doing something at work that requires me to do something for one minute or 30 seconds. I think I chose the wrong model. my son has a different model with always on screen that would have been better.

I bought the watch last month and I have to say that coming from an Apple Watch this watch is amazing from the active sleep tracking to the opportunity to track so much my workouts plus my water intake is an amazing feature. I really love the Golf app as well and that was the main reason for getting the watch as I actively golf. Only thing is that this is not a smart watch so I can not respond to texts or emails through the watch but in a way it helps me discount at the end of the day and not be tied down to technology Do not hesitate to get this watch

Absolutely love the watch. I am not too fond of the apps. The watch is comfy durable and a great choice for a first time smart watch owner. Can’t wait to dive further into it. 5 stars on the watch all around. Battery life is amazing. Being able to cancel calls incoming at my wrist … LOVE.

I think this is my 4th Garmin and I love this one the best. They continue to refine the coaching helps, the brightness of the display is second to none (which I am thankful for as I get older), it’s the lightest one I’ve had so I don’t mind wearing it while I sleep so I can track sleep trends and it’s not as expensive as some of the other models. I use it primarily for running, golf and walking.

Got it for my birthday and am so enjoying it. It was a step up from my Vivoactive 3, which was a step up from my Forerunner 35. I have had Garmin smart watches for a number of years and have never had a problem, just wanted more features. Have never been disappointed with any of them. I am a slow runner but have improved with the coach programs. I love the vibrant colors and all of the great features of the vivoactive 5.

When I bought the Vivoactive 5 watch last month, I wanted to replace another watch which had its limitations. I mainly wanted to track my steps but the Vivoactive watch did that and much more. It tracks my health data and gives me much more information than I could imagine or expected.

I only had the watch for 2-3 days... but already experienced some random reboots/restarts while browsing the body battery graph... and I also got 2 ugly "bricked device" kind of experiences. The watch doesn't turn on on gesture or button, screen is black and it needs recharging via cable or hard reset to get back to life... and unfortunately loses all graph data for body battery, stress, heart rate... The solution at the moment might be the auto-lock function. Somehow the watch activates to easily... Why is not a double tap feature and it only requires a 1tap to wake up ? Hopefully this could be solved via a software update. This is such a nice watch... Thanks!

I bot this watch to replace my 2year old venu that died. Really hard to see the full set of features online to compare all the garmin watches. When I received it, I configured it & could not find the stairs activity. After some googling - it's not a feature of the vicoactive :-(. I returned it and bought a new venu. I mostly track steps and stairs. Also running, biking and hiking. Venu is the model for me. Please make it easier for your customers to see all features of all models online. Venu 3 has longest battery life, so I picked that model. Don't really care about music, emails or notifications.